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Bronx, N.Y. – Fordham (13-7, 5-2) returns home to host Richmond (12-6, 2-3) on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. and then travels to Saint Louis on Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
 
Wednesday's game will be on SNY; both contests will be on ESPN+ and WFUV. All ways to follow along can be found at the schedule page above.
 
Pride Night!
Tomorrow's game is our PRIDE night! Fans are encouraged to wear colors of the rainbow (all of them!) in support of the LGBTQ+ communities!
 
Ramses Challenge
Join the Ramses Challenge, a new philanthropic initiative supporting our student-athletes! Pledge a set amount of money for each three-pointer or steal this year, or make a one-time gift to the program. All proceeds are tax-deductible and go directly to Fordham women's basketball. Read more here. So far, the Rams have 165 made threes and a whopping 174 steals! Thank you for all your continued support!
 
Last Time Out
The Rams rebounded from their loss to UMass with a whirlwind 71-65 victory at Saint Joseph's on Sunday. Fordham barely missed in the first half, scoring 27 points in the first quarter and holding a 43-25 lead at halftime while shooting 64.2% from the field. The Hawks, however, rallied furiously in the third quarter, outscoring the visitors, 25-11, in the third period to get within four, 54-50, heading into the fourth, where they would get within three on multiple occasions. The Rams never allowed Saint Joseph's to take control of the game, though, while making clutch shots down the stretch.
 
Asiah Dingle finished with a game-high 21 points on 10-of-17 shooting, while Anna DeWolfe added 18 efficient points, shooting 7-of-13 overall and 4-of-8 from distance. Dingle added six rebounds, four steals, and three assists, all tops on the team. Jada Dapaa, making her first start for the Rams, corralled six rebounds, as did Kaitlyn Downey, while Colleen McQuillen knocked down three three-points for nine points and Matilda Flood produced six points, four boards, and three dimes off the bench. Fordham shot 48.3% from the field, 11-of-24 from deep, but were outrebounded and committed 15 turnovers, as did the Hawks.
 
Iron Women
Kaitlyn Downey set the program record for career starts on Sunday, her 127th, in her 133rd career appearance, third-most all-time. Downey has never missed a contest, making all appearances consecutively since arriving on Rose Hill. Anna DeWolfe will appear in her 100^th consecutive game tomorrow night, all starts.
 
Series Histories
Richmond - The Spiders hold a 14-9 all-time series advantage over the Rams since 1988 when the two schools met at a tournament held by Georgia Tech. The next meeting was after Richmond joined the Atlantic 10 in 2001-02, a 22-point win in the Bronx. The Spiders rattled off 10 victories after that but since 2013, Fordham is 8-3, although last year Richmond won, 79-69.
 
Saint Louis – The all-time series is tied up, 11-11, since the Billikens joined the Atlantic 10 in 2005-06. It's been back-and-forth the entire way but recently it's been mostly Fordham in the driver's seat, winning five of the last seven contests. The two schools didn't meet last year due to their game being cancelled because of a COVID-19 outbreak, but Fordham most recently won, 72-63, at Chaifetz Arena in 2021. Anna DeWolfe scored 26 points in that one, while Kaitlyn Downey netted a career-high 24 points, the two combining for nine threes and each with five assists.
 
Nationally Speaking (as of 1/23)
Fordham have played at a much faster tempo this season, averaging 72.4 points per contest, which ranks 64th in the nation. The offense's 1.12 assist/turnover ratio, third in the Atlantic 10, sits 45th nationally. The team's recent slump from distance has dropped the offense down from 12th to 31st with 8.2 makes per game and from 48th to 76th in percentage, now at 34.0%. The Rams are dishing out the 68th-most assists per game (15.3) while committing just 13.7 turnovers per game, ranked 44th. The offense is also hitting free throws at the 25th-best rate (77.4%) despite taking the 343rd-fewest attempts (11.05).
 
Individually, Asiah Dingle is 14th in steals per game, 11th in field goals, and 23rd in points per game. Kaitlyn Downey is 22nd in defensive rebounds per game, 81st in total boards per game, and 46th in double-doubles. Anna DeWolfe is 41st in points per game, 19th in total threes, 16th in field goals, 37th in threes per game, and 39th in minutes per game.
 
Triple D - DeWolfe, Dingle, Downey
Shut the front door! The Fordham trio have been gnarly, righteous, dynamite, and, perhaps most importantly, the bomb-dot-com. All three earned Atlantic 10 All-Conference honors and had at least one A-10 Player of the Week award last season. Combined, they made up 66.1% of the team's scoring on a combined 40.2% shooting overall. They are the real deal. Through three games so far, those numbers are similar – 67.1% of the scoring on 43.0% shooting. For context for the uninitiated, this entire blurb is an ode to Guy Fieri's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
 
Three 1,000-Point Scorers
With her tough turnaround second-quarter jumper at Princeton, Kaitlyn Downey became the 25th Ram to score 1,000 points in program history. Now 15th with 1,172 points after passing three former Rams at Dayton, she joins Asiah Dingle (1,837 across three schools and five seasons) and Anna DeWolfe (1,658 - fifth-most in school history). Nationally, the Rams are one of 11 schools with three active student-athletes with 1,000 career points, although they are one of only two mid-major schools, along with UMass. Virginia Tech has four 1,000-point scorers.
 
Hungry Like DeWolfe
The 2020-21 Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Year and two-time WBCA All-America honorable mention, senior Anna DeWolfe is averaging 18.2 points per game on 42.4% shooting overall and 37.0% shooting from distance (54-of-146). Named to the Preseason All-Conference First Team, she became the 24th Ram to reach 1,000 career points on December 12, 2021 against Lafayette, doing so on a patented mid-range jumper, hitting nothing but net, and is now up to fifth all-time with 1,658 points.
 
For her career, across 99 consecutive starts, DeWolfe is fourth with 652 field goals, tied for fourth with Lauren Holden with 213 three-pointers, fifth with a career 16.7 per-game scoring average, is eighth with a 82.9% rate the line, and has now joined the all-time top-10 for career minutes played last Wednesday, 10th with 3,640.
 
Dingle All The Way
The Boston native is up to 129 career appearances across three schools and four-plus seasons, now with 111 career starts, starting all but one contest for Fordham since she arrived. Last year a Third Team All-Conference selection and now a preseason Second Team honoree, Dingle leads the team in scoring (19.5 points), assists (63), and steals (61), while shooting 45.3% from the floor, 35.2% from behind the arc, and 76.9% on a team-high 78 free-throw attempts.
 
For her career, she has accumulated 1,837 points, averaging 14.2 per game, 658 field goals, 287 steals, and a 399 assist/419 turnover ratio. She is a 42.9% career shooting with averages of 4.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 2.2 steals per game. Prior to her arrival in the Bronx, Dingle was a 19.2% three-point shooter on 104 career attempts. Last year she shot 18-of-64 (28.1%) and has continued to work at her long-range shot, shooting 35.2% this year on an already-career-high 91 attempts.
 
Among active players in Division I, she has been in a three-way battle all season for steals alongside Michigan State's Stephanie Visscher and Gardner-Webb's Jhessyka Williams, but is currently tops in the nation, nine ahead of the latter. She's also 10th with 451 free throws made and sixth with 623 attempts.
 
Downey Moving Up
The graduate forward broke the program record at Saint Joseph's on Sunday for career starts, with 127, surpassing Samantha Clark ('17), and has appeared in 133 consecutive contests since arriving in the Bronx. At Princeton earlier this season, she became the 25th Ram to reach 1,000 career points. She's up to 15th now with 1,172, passing Cecelia Wanker ('83), Hannah Missry ('17), and former teammate and now assistant coach Lauren Holden ('19) at Dayton. Against Wagner she moved into the all-time top-10 for career rebounds and just passed both Sharon Nast ('86) and former teammate Kendell Heremaia ('22) for fifth with 824. Also on Sunday she became the ninth Ram to reach 200 career three-pointers, now eighth with 201.
 
Where Do The 2022-23 Rams Stand in Program History?
Fordham is playing at a much faster tempo this season and its 72.4 points per game average, 64th in the nation, is a perfect example of that. In fact, that would be second only to the historic 1978-79 squad for the program record (73.8). As a result, with another 10 or so games left on the schedule, this team will surely threaten the record for made field goals, both inside the arc and out, while the team's current 77.4% free-throw clip and 1.12 assist/turnover ratio would rank second.
 
Asiah and Co. Steal the Show
You thought Asiah Dingle's five steals in the season opener was a handful? She doubled that with a program-record 10 against Saint Peter's, notching her ninth and 10th on consecutive possessions in the third quarter. Her previous best was six, which she'd accomplished several times over her career, including once with Fordham. The previous school record was eight, done five times by four student-athletes, but not since Lauren Fleischer in 2001. Her teammates added 11 thefts against the Peacocks to set a new single-game team record, as well, by three, with 21.
 
Up Next
The Rams kick February off with a trip to St. Bonaventure next Wednesday night at 7 p.m.